La La La

Obviously having a two year old, cbeebies is frequent viewing in our house. I have a major problem with this for two reasons (and this dose not include the fact that kids shouldn’t sit in front of the TV, because some of the time it is just unavoidable. I have to be able to clean and cook at some point and if them watching cbeebies is what will keep them quiet then god dam it I am going to let them!).

The first problem is that I can be sitting on the sofa reading a good book and a sound or a shape will grab my attention. Before I know what has happened I have sat through a whole episode of the Tweenies! How this works I don’t know, because lets face it have already leant the lessons they teach, like crossing the road safely, been doing that for years, and dialing 999, I have never had to do it but I think if I had to at a push I could probably manage it. Secondly, I can be going about my every day routine, like say taking Jack to school, and I will find myself humming a sweet little tune. I can be at this for ages before I realize that the sweet tune I have been humming for the last half and hour is post man pat!!

How children’s TV dose it I just don’t know, but I can only think of one safe guard to it never happening again, since I won’t ban it for the above reasons, the only thing to do is to walk around with a blind fold on and ear plugs in when ever the dreaded channel of fun is on. Yes this will make the hovering rather tricky and you could end up turning your hole white wash pink but that is a small price to pay for not having people look at you in “that way” when you are in the post office singing the thimbles theme tune! xxx